NEW JERSEY COMPUTER MONITORS TARGETED BY THIEF AT EIGHT LOCAL BUSINESSESPACKETONLINE News Classifieds Entertainment Business - Princeton and Central New Jersey - The South Brunswick Post - 06/09/2005 - Local computer thefts may be tied to othersPolice see links to Parkway-area break-ins.

Police said that a thief who has stolen computer monitors from eight local businesses in South Brunswick over the course of the past three months has struck again.
In addition, the thief may be connected to 40 similar incidents in Monmouth and Ocean counties, police said.
Police say someone stole four Dell Desktop flat-panel monitors valued at $2,000 from the Mincing Corp. on Tower Road between 9 p.m. June 1 and 7:30 a.m. June 2.
According to Detective James Ryan, spokesman for the South Brunswick Police Department, the thief pried open the door lock of the business and kicked open an office door, damaging the handle, lock mechanism and door itself.
Police said the thief may be the same person responsible for eight similar South Brunswick incidents that have occurred since April and responsible for 40 other burglaries in which computer monitors were stolen from businesses along the Garden State Parkway in such places as Holmdel and Lakewood in Monmouth and Ocean counties.
According to Detective Ryan, a link between the South Brunswick incidents and the Monmouth and Ocean incidents was made through a statewide system called Track.
Track allows police departments to post picture of suspects and send them to other departments. Officers in Monmouth and Ocean counties had already reached out to each other through the system after they discovered they were searching for the same man.
Detective Ryan said they obtained a picture of the suspect taken from a surveillance camera at one of the South Brunswick businesses that had been burglarized. Once it was posted on Track, South Brunswick was contacted by the Monmouth and Ocean county police departments.
Detective Ryan said the local burglaries took place mostly on weekends and after closing hours at businesses along Ridge Road, Route 130, Corn Road and Herrod Boulevard.
In each instance, computer monitors were taken and, in one instance, a television screen was stolen. Detective Ryan could not say how many monitors in all had been stolen.
Detective Ryan said the Corn Road and Tower Road incidents occurred on the same night, with the thief stealing two computer monitors from the Corn Road location, and four from the Tower Road location.
The man is described as clean-shaven with a medium build. He is between 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He is said to be about 25-30 years of age and drives a dark colored GEO Tracker.
Police said they think there are witnesses who have seen the suspect.
"But there is nothing that can directly lead to an arrest," Detective Ryan said.
Anyone with information on the suspect should contact Detective Ryan at (732) 329-4000, ext. 7448.